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If your website pages are not showing up in Google, you may have a problem with your sitemaps. This is a serious problem because it prevents Google from directing people to your website. Let us show you how to fix sitemap problems, and get Google to reindex your website!

How Serious Are Sitemap Problems?

Sitemap problems are HUGE, because they greatly sap the number of people who visit your website from a Google search. When we started having sitemap problems, the number of unique visitors to Allnet4u Enterprise web hosting was instantly halved.

Even if your website pages do appear in Google searches, the links may be corrupt or nonsensical. Look at this example of this search result which leads to a bad link.

The description of your website page may also be nonsensical, as the example above also demonstrates.

How To Detect + Fix Sitemap Problems

Log into Google Search Console.

Go to the the Sitemaps section (Crawl > Sitemaps)

It will show you the sitemaps for your website, as well as any sitemap errors.

4- Click on the error to find out what’s wrong.

You will need to use the information listed to figure out what’s wrong, and fix the problem.a) if the sitemap was deleted, or is corrupt, you will need to generate a new sitemapb) if the sitemap is inaccessible due to a permission setting, you need to change its permission setting.c) if you are using CloudFlare, try disabling Always use HTTPS.

After you fix the sitemap problem, you will need to resubmit the sitemap to Google. Go into each sitemap information page, and click on the red Resubmit button at the upper right corner.

After submitting the new sitemap, you can refresh the page to check its status.